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  1. technom3

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    #26 technom3, Jan 6, 2024
    Goal was 25... Got it a couple weeks before I was 25. Wish I remembered the date... But I'll never forget the car.
     
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  2. SCantera

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  3. Ferrarienthusiast71

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    #28 Ferrarienthusiast71, Jan 6, 2024
    Where is it now?
     
  4. Ferrarienthusiast71

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    #29 Ferrarienthusiast71, Jan 6, 2024
    Very cool garage,is that a 550 back there?
     
  5. NGooding

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    #30 NGooding, Jan 6, 2024
    I don't think anyone can beat that story. #Legend
     
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  6. SCantera

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    #31 SCantera, Jan 6, 2024
    I think it resides in France now. Marcel knows where it is.
     
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  7. SCantera

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    #32 SCantera, Jan 6, 2024
    Close.....it's a 575 SuperAmerica. I have had this SA for 15 years.
     
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    #33 375+, Jan 6, 2024
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  9. pce01

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    #34 pce01, Jan 6, 2024
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  10. NGooding

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    #35 NGooding, Jan 6, 2024
    A 330 is on my short list if all goes to plan. Preferably in a deep blue. What color is yours? Looks perfect to me. What's your interior like?
     
  11. SCantera

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    #36 SCantera, Jan 6, 2024
    I purchased 9593 in 2004 from an owner in Chicago. The color was painted in 1999 in Blu Lemans. Interior leather is black and blue carpets. Marcel noted that the car was originally Grigio Scuro w/ Nero Franzi with red carpets.
     
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    #37 Stams, Jan 6, 2024
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    #38 Stams, Jan 6, 2024
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    #39 colombo2cam, Jan 6, 2024
    21 - 250 PF Coupe don't have a photo
     
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  15. NGooding

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    #40 NGooding, Jan 6, 2024
    There was a Grigio Scuro that went on BaT recently. Looked pretty great in that color too.

    Though now I may be hunting for Blu Le Mans... :)
     
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    #41 abilliet, Jan 7, 2024
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  17. mestlick

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    #42 mestlick, Jan 12, 2024
    45 years old in 2021, when I bought this Testarossa.
    I was 8 years old in 1984, when I first saw the Testarossa and decided some day I would own one. I already had a 512bb matchbox car and the Ferrari Sports/Racing and Road Cars book.
    I first saw a Testarossa in person around 1995. My friends had to physically pull me away.

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    #43 swc5150, Jan 12, 2024
    49 (F430 #1). Old compared to many of you, so kudos to making it a reality younger in your lives!
     
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    #44 19633500GT, Jan 12, 2024
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    I was 27. I paid $10K plus $4K for a 20ft enclosed race trailer (had to take the trailer if I wanted the car, that was the deal).

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    #45 darth550, Jan 12, 2024
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    #46 Wikdstrate, Jan 12, 2024
    First (and only Ferrari) was a 2008 430 Scuderia I purchased in 2014 when I was 38yrs old.

    Great car, wonderful ownership experience but in no hurry to get back into another F Car.

    I would like to own a 12 cylinder someday.
     
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    #47 Redneck Slim, Jan 12, 2024
    I was 74 when I got my first Ferrari (a new Portofino). I spent 13 years researching different models. This forum is by far the best source of Ferrari information that I have found.
     
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    #48 simon klein, Jan 12, 2024
    Fair enough.

    50 for my first,the red one,and then 51 for the for the other FEV12HOS:
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    This stop was about 100miles into a 2100 mile round trip,for the red one and 1100 for the argento one,to Melbourne from Brisbane.
    The pair then went onto Tasmania for a 5 day drive with a bunch of other carby cars,the two clowns at the servo are on here:

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    ..........and this 'proper' 275 a GTB/C:
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  24. simon klein

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    #49 simon klein, Jan 13, 2024
    OH and as the 'proper enthusiast' will note....not one stupid shield amongst them.........
     
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  25. Redneck Slim

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    #50 Redneck Slim, Jan 13, 2024
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